lavidaloca said:
In my 22 years in Canada i've only seen 2 street walkers. Prostitution is far from rampant here. In fact quite the opposite. I'm shocked when someone said there are tons of prostitutes in Montreal. I suspect that one would get this impression if they are hanging out in strip bars. Other than that I dont find it very existent.
There are streetwalkers in Vancouver, but they are only tollerated in very specific areas. The impression I got when there was that as long as they stay in the tollerated areas police won't give them too much trouble. I have no objection to legal prostitution, but picking up some random hooker on a street corner is pretty much the bottom of the barrell. I think it may be a bit of a fetish with some guys. I remember a local billionaire being caught with street-hookers in his car. Well, being caught for class A drug possesion, where it came out he was with hookers at the time of arrest. A billionaire, but his idea of a good time was picking up streetwalkers in the worst part of town. His name was Mr Something Ho. I kid you not.
I think the legal staus of prostitution in Canada is that it is legal to be a prostitute, but not to "live off the avails of prostitutioni" i.e. It is illegal to be a pimp or madam.